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Globe Trotter wrote:
| HI, | | Does anyone know how the computer *actually* does integer division? | I understand that with powers of 2, it just does bit shifting, but | what about other powers, do you know? | | (for example, 5/2 = 101/10 so shift the 101 by 1 and get 10, but | how does 5/3 work, lets say?) | | Thanks and best wishes! | | | | __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the | mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. | http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail | Mr Globe Trotter,
Go to your text books and look it up yourself. As someone already said, look up any good computer architecture book.
PS: This question "smells" an awful lot like a homework question.
Things actually get interesting when you start talking about 1/10 or even 1/100. These fractions get represented by the computer as repeating binary numbers. Which is one reason why 0.01 + 0.01 may not equal 0.02 exactly.
James Kosin
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